Text to speech in Powershell using com object

function Out-Voice {
param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]$Text, [switch]$Drunk)
$object = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SpVoice
if ($drunk) { $object.Rate = -10 }
$object.Speak($text) | Out-Null}

Out-Voice -Text "hello, Unipex is great"
Out-Voice -Text "hello, Unipex is great" -Drunk

if you are not familiar with functions just do

$object = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SpVoice
$object.Speak("hello, Unipex is superb") | Out-Null

to get all avalable/installed voices

 $object = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SpVoice
 $object.GetVoices() | foreach {$_.getdescription()}

Blanka602
bob
igor
machac
machac-lpp
Microsoft Anna – English (United States)
violka
violka-lpp

to set a voice

$voicetouse=$object.GetVoices("Name=bob")
$object.voice = $voicetouse.item(0)
$object.Speak("kolo")

http://www.ehow.com/how_10073764_speak-different-voices-powershell.html

http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/938-making-remote-computers-speak-what-you-type?page=2

Tagged: COM, Powershell, Text to Speech